January 2025

Predicting a Presidential Payback

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“Never allow your adversary to underestimate what you would do in response to a challenge. Never tell him in advance what you would not do.”- Richard M. Nixon

Now, in 2025, Donald Trump has returned to the presidency, something that has not been done since 1893. The Democrats attempted several times to “weaponize” the law, to put Donald Trump behind bars where he could not be a threat to them. Obviously, their plan didn’t work. Weaponizing the law isn’t new. People who were not in favor of our government’s leaders have been prosecuted for some time, with black citizens who were prosecuted in the South just one of the more morally reprehensible examples of weaponizing.

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Got Loneliness? Get Nature Fix

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SAN FRANCISCO, 26 January – Almost 114 million Americans suffer from loneliness. Yet, there’s a free cure awaiting them outside their front doors.

Spending 20 minutes each day in nature i.e., your yard, local greenspace, community forest, river walkway, beach shoreline, desertscape or anywhere in the wild erases that feeling of emptiness or neglectfulness, whilst boosting your mental health, cognitive function and lowering stress.

The sounds of water running, waves lapping, wind rustling, birds singing, frogs chorusing and bees buzzing are a salubrious tonic.

Shut your personal device down. Revel in silence. Take a walk. Clear your mind. Look around at the little things that run the natural world. Listen. Smell. Touch. Breathe to the bottom of your lungs. Stay in one spot for several moments. Smile. Rejuvenate.

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The Trouble with Trillions of Talent

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Newly reelected President Trump (2025) wants to appoint Elon Musk and another billionaire, whose name I keep thinking is Rathersmarmy. I keep visualizing Rathersmarmy with a smile about eight shades brighter than any normal set of choppers.  These two billionaires will be heading (if this department is approved) DOGE, (Department of Government Efficiency) a proposed government agency that will examine other government agencies and eliminate government waste. It is true that government agencies often have overlapping jurisdictions, and those would be a prime target for elimination. My question is:  Do Musk and Rathersmarmy really understand the workings of the government of the United States? How many Political Science classes have they taken, that would explain just how the government of the United States functions?

For example, the federal Department of Education handed out $234.6 billion dollars during the 2021-2022 academic year.  According to USA Today, unpaid student loans equal $1.74 trillion with 92% being federal student loan debt. President Biden tried several times to get the votes of those citizens by forgiving most of that debt, but failed in spite of several attempts to increase the federal deficit by trillions when it was all over. Not to throw out too many numbers here, but college enrollment has declined since 2010, with public colleges declining by 15.1%.  Perhaps the federal Department of Education could use some attention.

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More Hellfires, Drowning in LNG

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SAN FRANCISCO, January 18 – Big banks have spent $213bn on constructing new intake/outtake liquefied natural gas (LNG) ports, planet-decimating ‘climate bombs’.

Since 2023, 108 new terminals (8 export, 99 import) have increased the world’s export capacity by 7 per cent, and the global import capacity by 19 per cent.

Big banks have committed funding for completion of another 156 LNG terminal projects (63 export, 93 import) by 2030.

These monstrosities will bleed the equivalent methane of the current annual emissions of all coal-fired facilities combined, 10 billion tons of HEAT during the next five years.

LNG is a dirty fossil fuel. It’s at least 24 per cent worse for the climate than coal.

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Odious U.S. Oligarchs

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US Oligarchs - Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett

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G7 politicians talk about oligarchs – fat-cat business leaders – linked to Russia that have too much power. Alas, America and 75 other countries have their own breeds of odious oligarchs that are inflicting misery whilst destroying the planet.

In point of fact, America’s oligarchs are spearheading the fleecing of Mother Earth. A small number of filthy rich billionaires own and control much of the global economy. And increasingly, they own and control the American government through a corrupt campaign finance system.

Since 2020, five billion people have become poorer while the world’s five most ruthless billionaires have more than doubled their riches at a rate of $14 million an hour.

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